The Duggars Have a Super Creepy Code Word To Repress Sexual Thoughts

As we know after a decade of watching 19 Kids and Counting, good ol' Jim Bob likes to control all things Duggar, and that includes trying to prevent his kids from having any premarital dalliances. Of course that hasn't exactly mattered to one of his son's ::cough, Josh, cough::

"Jim Bob's favorite word is 'no,'" a source close to the family told People. "He's like a dictator. He once saw a guy kissing a girl before marriage and confronted him about it. And the guy said, 'Jim Bob, show me that verse in the Bible that says we can't kiss. Get out your Bible.' And Jim Bob was like, 'Uhhhh ...' because no one ever confronts Jim Bob. No one."

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The Duggars, conservative Christians who subscribe to the fundamentalist ideology that sex should never be discussed, even have a secret code word they use whenever one of the boys has an impure thought about women: "Nike." It's a Greek term for the goddess of victory, as in, "Yay! I successfully stopped the blood flow to my sex rod. Victory!" Or, perhaps it was just a puerile reference to running shoes.

"That's a signal to the boys, and even to Dad, that they should nonchalantly drop their eyes and look down at their shoes as we walk past her," a few of the Duggar gals wrote in their 2014 advice book, Growing Up Duggar.

Sadly, it doesn't always work. We heard Josh uttered a lot of phrases to the stripper/porn star he allegedly had an affair with including "be a dirty girl," but none of them were Nike.

Besides not being allowed to discuss matters of the loin in the Duggar home, Jim Bob also doesn't allow music. He reportedly removed batteries from all the noise-making toys in the house "because he didn't want [his kids] to dance or move their bodies that way," the source added, to which we ask, what happens when they gotta, gotta, gotta, footloose? Well, Jim Bob?